Big Bend
Cedar Key Cam
Live Gulf view from the Harbour Master on Dock Street in Cedar Key.
Cedar Key Harbour Master · Dock Street · Cedar Key
Right now at Cedar Key
- Air temp
- 65°F
- Wind
- NNW 6 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- High 12:13 AM tomorrow
Today runs 62–78°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 5:41 PM.
Conditions from Open-Meteo and NOAA, refreshed through the day. The camera itself is a live feed from its operator.
Which fish look best today at Cedar Key
The same day scores differently for each fish: water temperature, wind, tide and seas count differently for a snook than for a sheepshead. Today’s read for Cedar Key, species by species.
Best bet: Spanish mackerel.
- Spanish mackerel90Prime
75°F water is right in the Spanish mackerel range.
Wind: 8 mph NW, gusts 17
Where to look
Open runs along beaches and passes, on clean, moving water.
Best Spanish mackerel spots today → - Spotted seatrout88Prime
75°F water is right in the trout range.
Wind: 8 mph NW, gusts 17
Where to look
Grass flats and pothole edges; deeper holes and canals when it's cold.
Best trout spots today → - Redfish86Prime
75°F water is right in the redfish range.
Wind: 8 mph NW, gusts 17
Better Tue: 92
Where to look
Oyster bars, grass flats and mangrove shorelines; they push shallow on a rising tide.
Best redfish spots today → - Tarpon85Prime
75°F water is cool for tarpon; the bite builds as it warms toward 76°F. Warming water is lifting it toward the sweet spot.
- Sheepshead79Good
75°F water is a little warm for sheepshead; the bite starts to ease. Still warming, which pushes it further past the range.
Wind: 8 mph NW, gusts 17
Where to look
Pilings, docks, oyster bars and rock — anything that grows barnacles.
Best sheepshead spots today →
Scores conditions for each fish, not where they are or when a run starts. Water temperature is today’s reading applied to the whole week, so a cold front further out won’t show here until the water follows. Temperature ranges are rules of thumb for Florida inshore water.
About Cedar Key
Cedar Key is an island town of clapboard buildings, clam farms and no chain stores, sitting at the edge of a scatter of outer keys and oyster bars on the Big Bend. Dock Street is the waterfront — stilted buildings out over the water, looking west across the shallows toward the outer islands and some of the best sunsets on the Gulf coast. This is skinny water for miles in every direction, so wind direction rules everything here: a hard easterly can pull the flats down to nothing.
What this camera is good for
- Whether the wind has blown the water off the flats
- Water clarity around the outer keys
- Boat and airboat traffic off Dock Street
- Sunset over the Gulf
Cedar Key has one of the few NOAA water-temperature sensors on this whole stretch of coast, right in town — the reading below is a real measurement, not a model estimate.
Full conditions for Cedar Key
Common questions
- Is the Cedar Key camera live?
- Yes — it streams on the operator's own site, and the link on this page always opens whichever stream is currently running.
- Does it cost anything to watch?
- No. Salty Forecast is completely free — no ads, no account, no paid tier, and nothing on this page is behind a sign-up.
- What are the tides at Cedar Key today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Cedar Key are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Cedar Key. Tide state changes what the beach looks like on camera — at low water the beach is at its widest.
- Why does the camera look hazy or dark?
- Live cameras sit outdoors: rain on the lens, salt spray, fog and low light all affect the picture. Night views are lit only by whatever is nearby. If the feed is down entirely, that is the operator's camera rather than this page — the conditions above still update.